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Wargame Design Course... Component production the night before assessment...

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Interesting initiative... www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Generic Kriegsspiel counters for a UK battlegroup and near peer enemy...

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Recent game purchase... Nothing to do with what is happening in world politics, I'm sure...

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Wargaming some more - moving up a gear...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

More wargaming - this time it is a "Simple Wargame" - Open game with a simple CRT...

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Quite right.

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Sobering stuff...

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Swag. Read it in a single sitting. Pure escapist fun. 😁

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Thinking about Defence Procurement...

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A friend of mine did a podcast...

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Wargaming Taiwan at Oxford... Very interesting dilemma at the end... Great play from a lot of bright people...

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New wargame maps arrived, ready for Oxford University tomorrow...

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Day Two, finalising game research questions, aims, objectives, design, DCMP, etc., and on to playtesting...

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Do you want a quick primer on professional #wargaming? My presentation covers three major elements of wargaming - a brief history, it's applications in DoD, and my design approach in creating #wargames. 🔗 Link: youtu.be/4pye51qA-m8?...

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Wargaming at the Academy today...

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We have "Digital Skills Guy" at the Academy... At least I think it is a guy... Lantern jaw, slim hips and no boob armour...

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Wargaming "Divisional Commander" at the Defence Academy today...

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Wargaming at the Connections UK Conference (www.professionalwargaming.co.uk)...

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New maps arrived for Littoral Commander...

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Looking for something to do in the post Christmas slump? Our top 5 webinars are here to watch for free! 1) youtu.be/3LgKSYPWt8A 2) youtu.be/E6Ri7sZMzwo 3) youtu.be/g2La5aEgrAI 4) youtu.be/ApucnjPK3I0 5) youtu.be/yoktqS7aWgo Subscribe to our YT channel to catch our 2025 Webinar Series live!

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Worth checking out... analoggamestudies.org/2024/12/roll...

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RAFFLE 🏆 Like, retweet, and follow by Dec 22 (midnight EST) and you can win a signed copy of my Littoral Wooden Unit Upgrades for my "Littoral Commander Indo-Pacific" #wargame! May the odds be in your favor. 😁 🎲 #wargaming

submitted 106 days ago • 7 comments

I want an AI app on my phone that recognises free WiFi, and automatically signs me up to a dummy account with a disposable email address, and registers me. All without me doing the boring stuff. And checks my VPN is up and running. Is it too much to ask?

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😢

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If you get it, thank a teacher. If you just laugh... eewe

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Always a good commentator:

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"The Blockade" is a micro game I designed that explores dueling naval blockades. The PRC must strangle TWN into submission before the US can cut off its vital sea lanes, undercutting PRC efforts against TWN. There aren't enough ships to do everything and national will is fragile.

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Interesting idea...

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My evening #wargaming reading. www.rand.org/pubs/article...

submitted 114 days ago • 2 comments

For my Indo-Pacific Micro Games series, each designer researched & designed a unique educational micro game exploring a security challenge in the region. The games are quick, easy to learn, and print to play. SHARE & LIKE! You can find the FREE PDF here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Wargaming in Peru: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Sr...

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Always worth listening to:

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I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

submitted 118 days ago • 709 comments

Our 2024 Webinar Series is over! We were fortunate to have 8 excellent speakers in Col John Antal, Amos Fox, Chuck Oliviero, William F Owen, Prof Andrew Stewert, Dr Rob Lyman and two serving COs talking PME. All of these videos are up on our YT channel: www.youtube.com/@fightclubin...

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An interesting historical find. Harpoon Captain's Edition (a simplified version of Harpoon), presumably for senior leaders... 😉. admiraltytrilogy.com/ce.php

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My kind of conference paper...

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IITSEC Conference... Big one this year. More women, less tanks... This is encouraging.

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Playtesting of my Star Wars procurement/force design wargame yesterday. Lots of minor edits but the overall game works (good designs + political infighting on force design). I planned it to be a subcomponent of a megagame, but I think there is megagame potential in it on its own...

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The recent paper by Rosen & Kerr for MCU Press is a good addition to the growing literature about the preferences and effects of educational #wargaming in professional military education. We need more research and scholarship on the topic. 😁 🔗 www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Mar...

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